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>>John Boyd's magnum opus was a slide presentation of several hundred slides, which took several hours to present, which he never allowed to be abridged or summ
by otoburb 5y ago
>>John Boyd's magnum opus was a slide presentation of several hundred slides, which took several hours to present, which he never allowed to be abridged or summarized in any way.
I think you're referring to Patterns of Conflict[1] which is/was 187 slides plus around 9 slides of sources. The funny thing is that Patterns is mostly comprised of dense text, not diagrams or pictures. It was a lot of fun trying to absorb Boyd's ideas if one can find the presentations online. They are quite a contrast to (publicly available) military briefings and papers these days given the lower text-to-visuals ratio.
Chuck Spinney and Chet Richards worked with Boyd, as did Ginger Richards, on various major briefings. To your point, most of them are 40+ pages/slides each.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Conflict
- vageli 5y agoIt seems to be available online [0] (found a link in the linked wiki page). [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210414195621/http://www.ausairpower.net/JRB/poc.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210414195621/http://www.ausair...
- aspenmayer 5y agoRemastered audio combined version, no captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TpFQuBY8E0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TpFQuBY8E0 Nearly 5.5 hours! Standalone modern slides, almost 200 pages: http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/boyd/patterns%20of%20conflict.pdf http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/boyd/patterns%20of%20c... Alternate modern slides with PiP presentation of same presentation as above, but in separate parts, but best audio IMO, with auto-generated captions, typos included: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4pmLxkc7CTcukIlpD0UThT7Y_K09oxXe https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4pmLxkc7CTcukIlpD0UThT7Y... The story behind the original uploader getting the source videos which were uploaded in separate parts, which have been remastered and combined since: https://medium.com/@jasonmbro/uploading-john-boyd-4264b82d73ed https://medium.com/@jasonmbro/uploading-john-boyd-4264b82d73... Original slides: https://geekboss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/patterns-of-conflict.pdf https://geekboss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/patterns-of-... via https://geekboss.com/boyd-patterns-of-conflict/ https://geekboss.com/boyd-patterns-of-conflict/ Which seems to link to an alternate version of the talk in four parts, but which is not exhaustive or complete as above versions.